Tel Poli – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Wash chana dal really good and soak it in enough water for at least 5-6 hours or overnight.
• Transfer the soaked into the cooker and add water, turmeric powder.
• Mix well and close the lid.
• You can add about 1/2 tsp oil so that dal won’t spill out of the cooker.
• Cook on medium heat until 4-5 whistles.
• Drain the excess water from the dal. You can use this water to make katachi amti.
• Transfer the dal into a pan and mash it really good with a potato masher.
• Add gudh and mix well.
• Cook on medium heat until the gudh melts.
• Continue cooking further for about 8-10 minutes until Puran thickens up.
• Stir continuously while cooking.
• The puran should not be too thick. It should be a little soft.
• Add cardamom powder, nutmeg powder, and mix well.
• Puran is all-ready.
• In a dish take maida.
• You can use 1 cup wheat flour and 1 cup maida or only wheat flour too.
• Add salt and add a little water at a time to knead soft dough.
• Add oil and knead it well until it doesn’t stick to hand.
• Transfer the dough into a bowl, cover and rest it for at least 1-2 hours.
• Take a small ball of puran and also take a small ball of dough.
• Make the dough nice and smooth.
• Spread the dough a little to make pari and stuff the puran in it.
• Close the pari from all sides.
• Remove the excess dough.
• Spread oil all around the dough ball and put it on butter paper which is greased with oil.
• You can use foil in place of butter paper.
• Roll the dough ball into a round disc with hands first.
• Spread oil on the rolling pin and roll the disc into thin poli.
• Stretch the poli as much as you can.
• Heat up a pan on low heat and spread oil on it.
• Transfer the poli carefully on the pan and take the butter paper off.
• When the poli dries well from one side flip it over.
• You can spread oil along the edges if you want.
• Brush oil on the upper surface of the poli and flip it over.
• Roast well from another side as well.
• Take the poli off into a dish.
• Tel poli is all-ready.
• You can have this poli with katachi amti.